Re: Initscripts - another idea worth a look

From: mb/redhat dcs qmul ac uk

To: phoebe-list redhat com

Subject: Re: Initscripts - another idea worth a look

Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 10:29:21 +0000 (GMT)

On Jan 5 Matt Wilson wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 04:38:15AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
>> I've not actually tried either of these, but see
>> http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/linux/boot-scripts/
>> www.fastboot.org
>>
>> There's been some discussion on redhat-devel; I'd hate for RH to miss
>> it. We'd all like our machines to boot faster.
>
>We looked at fastboot.org's serel and found that it did not have
>enough speed increase to outweigh the added complexity.
Some other distributions do it even worse, though! I remember once waiting
over an hour to boot one of our servers into single-user mode because it
insisted on fsck-ing and quotachecking 300GB of local volumes before
giving you a shell prompt :(